
Movers and Shakers of AI
Sam Altman
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CEO of OpenAI
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Former president of Y Combinator
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Known for visionary leadership and emphasis on ethical AI development
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Advocate for AI safety and regulation
Dario Amodei
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CEO and co-founder of Anthropic
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Former VP of Research at OpenAI
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Focuses on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems
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Committed to safety in AI development
Geoffrey Hinton
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"Godfather of Deep Learning"
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Seminal figure in neural networks and deep learning
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Turing Award winner
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Advocate for careful consideration of AI's impact on society
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Yann LeCun
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Chief AI Scientist at Meta
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Turing Award winner
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Pioneering work in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and computer vision
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Advocate for self-supervised learning and openness in research
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Yoshua Bengio
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Professor at University of Montreal
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Turing Award winner
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Founder and scientific director of Mila
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Focuses on neural networks, generative models, and representation learning
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Deeply involved in AI ethics
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Demis Hassabis
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Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind
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Integrates neuroscience and AI
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DeepMind achieved milestones like AlphaGo and AlphaFold
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Dedicated to using AI for widespread benefit
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Fei-Fei Li
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Professor at Stanford University
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Co-director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
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Driving force behind ImageNet
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Advocate for diversity in STEM and ethical AI development
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Andrew Ng
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Co-founder of Coursera and deeplearning.ai
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Adjunct professor at Stanford University
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Passionate about making AI education accessible
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Emphasizes a pragmatic approach to AI adoption
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Ilya Sutskever
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Co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI
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Research central to many breakthroughs in neural networks
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Played a pivotal role in developing GPT-3 and GPT-4
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Committed to advancing AI safely
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Jeff Dean
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Google Senior Fellow leading Google AI
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Instrumental in designing Google's core infrastructure
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Co-founded Google Brain team
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Key figure in the development of TensorFlow
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Stuart Russell
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Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley
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Co-authored "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach"
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Advocate for the development of beneficial AI
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Peter Norvig
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Director of Research at Google
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Co-authored "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach"
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Expertise in both practical and theoretical aspects of AI
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Advocate for open-source software
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Ian Goodfellow
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Best known for inventing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
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Co-authored the textbook "Deep Learning"
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Recognized for his contributions to AI safety and security
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Richard Sutton
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Professor at University of Alberta
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Distinguished Research Scientist at DeepMind
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One of the founding fathers of reinforcement learning
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Authored "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction"
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Andrej Karpathy
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Known for his work in deep learning and computer vision
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Former Director of AI at Tesla
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Created one of the earliest online courses on deep learning
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Ruslan Salakhutdinov
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Professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University
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Former Director of AI Research at Apple
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Research encompasses probabilistic graphical models, deep learning, and large-scale optimization
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Cynthia Breazeal
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Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab
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Pioneer in social robotics and human-robot interaction
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Founder and director of the Personal Robots Group
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Creator of Kismet
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Sebastian Thrun
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Entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist
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Known for contributions to robotics, autonomous driving, and online education
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Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
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Founder and CEO of Udacity
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Kate Crawford
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Researcher, writer, and professor focused on AI's social and political implications
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Research Professor at USC Annenberg
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Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research
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Co-founded AI Now Institute
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